Yo La Tengo Hanukkah

[Spooks]

I always enjoy all the speculation and anticipation of who will be opening these shows ever year. This year is no different Pussy Galore are opening tonight it looks like! And Glands are opening Christmas Eve show!

Last year, these were the openers....

12/1 - M. Ward, Todd Barry, Nash Kato
12/2 - The Parting Gifts, Jim Gaffigan, members of The Feelies
12/3 - Jeff Tweedy, Eugene Mirman & Kid Congo Powers
12/4 - Syl Johnson, Jon Glaser, Peter Wolf & Ira's mom
12/5 - Mission of Burma & Wyatt Cenac
12/6 - Mofungo, Amy Rigby, Wreckless Eric, Mikael Jorgensen, Tara Key, Gil Divine & Eugene Mirman
12/7 - Bonnie Prince Billy, Kurt Braunohler & Kristen Schaal & Nels Cline
12/8 - The National, Marc Maron, Hamish Kilgour, Bruce Bennett, Gil Divine

Night #1
Special Guest: Sea & Cake
Comedians: Jon Benjamin & Jon Glaser
Mix disc by Bob Odenkirk
Mac McCaughan of Superchunk was guest YLT guitarist.

Yo La Tengo Maxwell's 12/20 Setlist:
(entire set with Mac McCaughan on guitar, keyboards, and vocals.)
Night Falls on Hoboken
Eight Days A Week (The Beatles)?
Nothing To Hide
Stockholm Syndrome
Tears Are In Your Eyes
Did I Tell You?
Upside Down
Noisy Night (Portastatic) (Mac vocals)
Styles of the Times (with John McEntire on drums)?
Don't Say A Word (with John McEntire on drums)?
Drug Test
Tom Courtenay (Georgia vocals)
I Heard You Looking (with Sam Prekop & Archer Prewitt on guitars)
Our Way To Fall (with Sam Prekop & Archer Prewitt on guitars)

*(encore)*
Aba Dabba Do Dance (The Tradewinds) (with Todd Abramson on vocals & Archer Prewitt on drums)?
Somebody's In Love (Sun Ra)

Night #2
Special Guest: Spent (who reunited for Merge's 20th Anniversary in 2009)
Comedians: Bobcat Goldthwait & Neil Innes
Mix disc by James
Smokey Hormel was guest YLT guitarist.

Yo La Tengo Maxwell's 12/21 Setlist:
Green Arrow (with Smokey Hormel on guitar)?We're An American Band (with SH)?The Weakest Part (with SH)
Here To Fall (alt. arrangement) (with SH)?Let's Be Natural (The Rutles) (with Neil Innes on guitar/keys/vocals)
Ouch! (The Rutles) (with NI)
Democracy (Neil Innes) (with NI)
Under the Evening Sun (Neil Innes) (with NI)
I Want To Be With You (Bonzo Dog Band) (with NI)
Where Has All the Money Gone (NI solo)
Bottom of the Pile (Neil Innes) (NI solo)
Doubleback Alley / Good Times Roll / Another Day / Cheese & Onions (NI solo until "C&O")?My Heart's Reflection (with SH & NI)?One of Those People (Neil Innes) (with SH & NI)
Tears Are In Your Eyes (with SH & NI)
I'm The Urban Spaceman (Bonzo Dog Band) (with SH & NI)?Autumn Sweater (with SH & NI)?The Story of Yo La Tango (alt. arrangement) (with SH & NI)?
*(encore)*
My Little Red Book (Burt Bacharach & Hal David) (with Gaylord Fields on vocals)
Hanky Panky Nohow (John Cale)
---

Night #3
Special Guest: Lee Ranaldo Band
Comedian: Ted Alexandro
Mix disc by Kid Koala
Lee Ranaldo & Steve Shelley w/ Yo La Tengo "Mote"


Yo La Tengo Maxwell's 12/22 Setlist:
Nutricia
Sugarcube (alt. arrangement)
Madeleine
Lewis
Mr. Tough
Season of the Shark
Periodically Double or Triple
Doesn't Anybody Love the Dark (Run On) (with Alan Licht on guitar and vocals)?The Last Days of Disco (with AL, Lee Ranaldo on guitar, and Steve Shelley on drums)
Fourth Time Around (Bob Dylan) (with AL, LR, SS)
Decora (alt. arrangement) (with AL, LR, SS)
Double Dare (with SS)
Mote (Sonic Youth) > (with LR & SS)
Pass the Hatchet, I Think I'm Goodkind (with LR, AL, & SS)
*(encore)*
Andalucia (John Cale)?Mandy (Barry Manilow) (with John Cameron Mitchell on vocals)

[cutterbutter]

Go away.

[WhyTheLongFace]

^^^

[Cookieman908]

Spooks, it's not that this subject is not deserving of its own thread.

It's just that you'd have much better luck getting people to discuss this topic on a message board that actually has users that live in NYC rather than this message board that has, oh, maybe 3 users who live in NYC?

Enjoy the show.

[zenidogx]

Envious.

[Courtney]

I love YLT and am very much jealous of people who get to attend these shows.

[Spooks]

For Cutterbutter who saw Blink 182 more than once in year 2011 and put those shows in his top 2011 shows (Oh and Jimmy Eat World! Didn't know they were still around), I don't blame you for not knowing Yo La Tengo at all

If you like Yo La Tengo, these shows are amazing. Very different from a normal Yo La Tengo show in that they play 8 of them in a row, so they take the time and really go through the catalogue. You will hear songs from almost any album and they bring the guests on stage for different versions or songs that are hard to do live as a trio. For example, first night of hanukah in 08 they had Janet Weiss drumming the whole time, so with 2 drummers they played a lot of songs differently, with odd choices. You never know what you will get and it's almost always something fun and different. LOTS of Ira freakouts and covers. Lots of jokes and weird behavior. Lots of obscure songs. It's really awesome, but not for the casual fan. This is not how I would introduce someone to Yo La Tengo.

Hopefully tonight, The Feelies will open! And since Louis CK performed last night at UCB.....maybe he'll show up!
http://www.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments...ce_at_the_ucb/


Night #4
Special Guest: Pussy Galore
Comedian: Todd Barry
Dave Rick was guest YLT guitarist.

Mix disc by Chris Knox

Yo La Tengo Maxwell's 12/23 Setlist:
Detouring America With Horns (DR on bass)
Nothing To Hide
Avalon or Someone Very Similar
Porpoise Song (Carole King) (DR on vocals)

The River of Water
Serpentine
Ben Wa Baby (Phil Milstein)

Don't Have To Be So Sad (with Rachel Blumberg on drums)
Saturday (with RB)

Coloured (Chris Knox)

Black Flowers
Today Is The Day (fast)
Some Kinda Fatigue
Tom Courtenay
More Stars Than There Are In Heaven

*(encore)*
You Don't Love Me Yet (Roky Erickson) (with RB)

This Ain't The Summer of Love (Blue Oyster Cult) (with Todd Barry on drums)

Crush (Chris Knox)


Pussy Galore!


Thurston Moore talking about Pussy Galore for those that never heard of them...


Night #5
Special Guest: The Glands
Comedian: Jon Glaser
Mix disc by Mr. Finewine

Yo La Tengo Maxwell's 12/24 Setlist:
Big Day Coming (slow) (with Tara Key on guitar)

Stockholm Syndrome (with TK)

The Crying of Lot G (with TK)

Demons (with TK)

Upside Down (drone version) (with TK)

Beanbag Chair
If It's True
I'm On My Way (with TK)

Double Dare (alt. arrangement) (with TK)

Five-Cornered Drone (Crispy Duck) (with TK)

Orange Song (Antietam) (with TK)

Decora (with TK)

Big Day Coming (fast)

Little Honda (with TK)


*(encore)*
Rock and Roll Santa (Jan Terri) (with TK)

Night Moves (Bob Seger) (with TK and Jon Glaser as 'Jon' on vocals)
Yellow Sarong (The Scene Is Now)

Night #6
Special Guest: Dump
Comedian: Kurt Braunhohler
Mix disc by Tim and Eric

Dump Setlist:
Dump:
How Many Bells?
Dear Betty Baby (Mayo Thompson)

A Plea For Dump
It's Not Alright
Another Lonely Christmas (Prince)

Daily Affirmation (with Georgia and Ira)

Superpowerless (with Georgia and Ira)

Yo La Tengo Maxwell's 12/25 Setlist:
Santa Claus Goes Modern (Sven Swanson) (with Tara Key on guitar)
Barnaby, Hardly Working (with TK)

Black Hole (The Urinals) (with TK)

Fog Over Frisco (with TK)

Sometimes I Don't Get You
Flying Lesson (with TK and Gil Divine on guitars)
S
haker (with TK and GD)

Something To Do (with TK)

I'm Set Free (with TK)

Satellite (with Rachel Blumberg on drums and TK)

Nowhere Near (with RB and TK)

Outsmartener (with TK)

Moby Octopad (with TK)

Nothing To Hide (with TK)

Pass the Hatchet, I Think I'm Goodkind (with TK)


*(encore)*
Take A Giant Step (Carole King, Gerry Goffin) (with TK)

She's My Best Friend (Velvet Underground)
Dreaming (Sun Ra)

Night #7
Special Guest: Kurt Vile & the Violators
Comedian: Leo Allen
Dave Schramm was guest YLT guitarist

Mix disc by Ira

Yo La Tengo Maxwell's 12/26 Setlist:

Sudden Organ
Can't Forget
How To Make A Baby Elephant Float
I Can Hear Music (Ellie Greenwich)

When It's Dark
Here Comes My Baby (Cat Stevens)

Cone of Silence
Little Eyes
I Feel Like Going Home
Griselda (Antonia) (with Peter Stampfel on fiddle and vocals)

One PM Again (with PS)

The One To Cry (The Escorts (with PS)

Wasn't Born To Follow (Carole King, Gerry Goffin) (with PS)

Mr. Tough (with PS)

The Summer
Asparagus Song
Center of Gravity

*(encore)*
I Can't Make It On Time (The Ramones
)
Gates of Steel (Devo)

Prisoners of Rock and Roll (Neil Young)

[SoulDischarge]

Pussy Galore is back together? What the fuck? When did this happen?

[bmack86]

Hey kids: This is not a thread to bitch about. It's a thread to make me jealous, for sure.

Night 5's setlist in particular is great. I would have loved to have been there.

[Spooks]

Whew! Although it wasn't the Feelies, we got The Trypes which was totally unexpected as they don't play much at all! It was a trippy, retro set by Feelies "side project/spin off" the Trypes. Then SNL vet Chris Elliott took the stage and performed his own version of "I Am, I Said'' while backed by YLT. I saw someone taping it so hopefully it'll show up on Youtube soon. Absolutely hilarious and the only time I enjoyed hearing Neil Diamond song...YLT was class act all the way. Noise + pop = fucking awesome. For the last encore of the night, they brought out Ira's grandmother for "My Little Corner of the World" Thanks Ira &co, good times as usual. Get some fucking rest and hope you feel better! Can't wait for next year to do it all over again

You can read/see pics from every night here....
http://www.yolatengo.com/news/yo-la-...anukkah-diary/

Night #8
Special Guest: The Trypes
Comedian: Chris Elliott

Mix disc by Georgia

(YLT backed Chris Elliott on Neil Diamond's "I Am, I Said")


YLT with Glenn Mercer (Feelies) on guitar


12/27/11 Yo La Tengo Setlist:
As The Hour Grows Late (with Rick Rizzo on guitar and John Baumgartner on accordion)

I Threw It All Away (Bob Dylan) (with RR and JB)
Heroin (Velvet Underground) (Roky Erickson version) (with RR)

I Should Have Known Better
Swing For Life
Damage
Liz Beth (Eleventh Dream Day) (RR on vocals)

Big Day Coming (acoustic) (with RR)

The Empty Pool (Yung Wu) with Glenn Mercer on guitar)
From A Motel 6 > (with GM)
Flying (The Beatles) > (with The Trypes)
It's All Too Much (The Beatles) > (with the Trypes)

I Heard You Looking (with GM, JB on keyboards, and Stan Demeski on drums)
Take Care (Alex Chilton)

*(encore)*
Blue Line Swinger
My Little Corner of the World (Bob Hilliard, Lee Pockriss) (with Marilyn Kaplan on vocals)

[RedHotSgtPeppers]

[Spooks]

2012 Yo La Tengo Hanukkah (12/8-12/15) shows are on sale now! I got tickets for 12/14 since it'll be an off date for Rolling Stones and I heard YLT loves them

http://www.ticketfly.com/calendar/?q...go+maxwell%27s

[Spooks]

3 more days till Hanukkah! Who's opening for YLT this weekend...

I think Nels Cline will show up next week since he's playing with Medeski Martin & Wood but who else?! Let's see who's in town next week: Andrew Bird, Thurston Moore, James Blake, DJ Shadow, Black Dice, OS Mutantes, & Sharon Van Etten...oh Rolling Stones and whoever is booked for 12/12 benefit show @ MSG!

Here's the full guest lineup for the Blue Note residency for Medeski Martin & Wood!

12/11 - Aïyb Dieng
12/12 - Nels Cline
12/13 - Marc Ribot
12/14 - Bill Evans
12/15 - Marty Ehrlich

No guest on the last night, 12/16. Just pure MMW.

[Spooks]

Yo La Tengo at Maxwell's
8 December 2012
Hanukkah, night 1

The Raybeats and Emo Philips opened
benefit for Fund to Rebuild Hoboken
mix disc by Tom Scharpling

Night Falls on Hoboken
Seven Day Weekend (Doc Pomus) (sung as "Eight Day Weekend")
The Evil That Men Do (Craig's version)
Stockholm Syndrome
Paddle Forward
Before We Run
Beanbag Chair
Big Day Coming (acoustic)
Satellite
Tom Courtenay
Artificial Heart
The Kid With the Replaceable Head (Richard Hell) (with Jody Harris of the Raybeats/Contortions on guitar)
Pass the Hatchet, I Think I'm Goodkind (with JH)
*(encore)*
Drug Test
Take A Giant Step (Carole King and Gerry Goffin)

Yo La Tengo at Maxwell’s
9 December 2012
Hanukkah, night 2

Sun Ra Arkestra and Fred Armisen opened
benefit for the Carl Bini Foundation For Staten Island Victims of Hurricane Sandy
mix disc by Kurt Wagner

whole show with Fred Armisen on drums

Autumn Sweater
Sudden Organ
Who Loves the Sun (Velvet Underground)
Today Is The Day (fast)
As the Hour Grows Late
Stupid Things
Shadows
Black Flowers
Walking Away From You (with Sabir Mateen and Darius Jones on saxophones)
Shaker (with SM & DJ)
Nuclear War (Sun Ra) (with SM & DJ)
And The Glitter Is Gone > (with SM & DJ)
Our Way To Fall (with SM & DJ)

*(encore)*
Can’t Make It On Time (The Ramones)
Dreaming (Sun Ra)

[bmack86]

Holy shit, that 12/9 show starts with the ultimate 1-2 organ drone punch.

[Spooks]

New links for these excellent, fan-curated live Yo La Tengo compilations: http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumbl...ngo-kicked-off

ps The Feelies are opening tonight

[Mugwog]

For Cutterbutter who saw Blink 182 more than once in year 2011 and put those shows in his top 2011 shows (Oh and Jimmy Eat World! Didn't know they were still around), I don't blame you for not knowing Yo La Tengo at all

Lulz

[zenidogx]

Sun Ra Arkestra?! Sweet Jesus, I need to go to one of these one day.

[Spooks]

Tonight: Real Estate and the comedian is Todd Barry! The Feelies played for over an hour last night FML! Enjoy 16 mins jam of Sister Ray below...

I said it last night, and I just may say it again tomorrow: Without the Feelies, I can’t really imagine our band being around today. They wanted to contribute in some way to the recovery from Sandy, and really I have no words to describe how it felt to have them spend night three of Hanukkah with us.

http://www.yolatengo.com/news/yo-la-...anukkah-diary/

Yo La Tengo at Maxwell’s
10 December 2012
Hanukkah, night 3

The Feelies and John Mulaney opened
benefit for the Food Bank of New Jersey
mix disc by James

The Feelies:
Deep Fascination
For Now
Invitation
For Awhile
On the Roof
Let’s Go
Higher Ground
The Final Word
Slipping (Into Something)
Away
Way Down
When You Know
Doin’ It Again
Time Is Right
Raised Eyebrows
Crazy Rhythms



Yo La Tengo:
Paul Is Dead
Time Fades Away (Neil Young) (with Glenn Mercer of the Feelies on guitar)
Barnaby, Hardly Working (with GM)
Tears Are In Your Eyes
Something To Do
The Point of It
Tom Courtenay (Georgia version)
Tired Hippo (with Dave Weckerman and Stan Demeski of the Feelies on percussion)
The Room Got Heavy (with DW & SD)
False Alarm (with DW & SD)
The Story of Jazz (with DW & SD)
Double Dare (with DW & SD)
Little Honda (The Hondells)

*(encore)*
You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere (Bob Dylan) (with The Feelies’ Bill Million on guitar & Brenda Sauter on vocals)
Sister Ray (Velvet Underground) (with GM & BM)

[Spooks]

Yo La Tengo at Maxwell’s
11 December 2012
Hanukkah, night 4

Real Estate and Todd Barry opened
benefit for the Hoboken Volunteer Ambulance Corps
mix disc by Shintaro Sakamoto

whole set with Kid Millions of Oneida on drums

Spec Bebop
We’re An American Band
The Crying of Lot G
20th Century Boy (T-Rex)
Out the Window
The Point of It
The Summer
Don’t Have To Be So Sad
Double Dare (acoustic)
Big Day Coming (fast)
Nothing To Hide
Decora
Mushroom Cloud of Hiss

*(encore)*
Burnin’ For You (Blue Öyster Cult) (with Todd Barry on drums)
Our Way To Fall (with Martin Courtney of Real Estate on vocals)

[Spooks]

Damn! Two more way-out jams book-ending the set!!!

Yo La Tengo at Maxwell’s
12 December 2012
Hanukkah, night 5

El-P (with James on bass) and John Oliver opened
benefit for the Brooklyn Recovery Fund
mix disc by Georgia

From A Motel 6 >
I Should Have Known Better
Here To Fall
Can’t Forget
I Can Hear Music (Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich, & Phil Spector)
If It’s True
Mr. Tough
Nowhere Near
Cornelia and Jane
Deeper Into Movies
Some Kinda Fatigue
Sugarcube
The Story of Yo La Tango

*(encore)*
Dog Meat (Flamin’ Groovies)
Hanky Panky Nohow (John Cale)

[Spooks]

I'm hoping Jeff Tweedy will be tonight's guest since he was in town last night on the Colbert Report with Mavis Staples and Sean Lennon to sing "Happy XMas (War Is Over)"!

Yo La Tengo at Maxwell’s
13 December 2012
Hanukkah, night 6

Barbara Manning and Eugene Mirman opened
benefit for the Ali Forney Center
mix disc by Cory Rayborn of Three Lobed Recordings

Big Day Coming (quiet)
Evanescent Psychic Pez Drop
Frenzy (The Fugs)
Let’s Save Tony Orlando’s House
Five-Cornered Drone (Crispy Duck)
Winter A Go Go
I’m On My Way
I’ll Be Around
Cherry Chapstick
Styles of the Times
Sugarcube
Little Honda (The Hondells) (no noise jam)
Blue Line Swinger

*(encore)*
Christmas Is Lonely (When You’re A Jew) (The Yule Logs) (with Barbara Manning on guitar and vocals and Dan Vargas on vocals)
B4 We Go Under (Barbara Manning) (with BM & DV)
Tried So Hard (Gene Clark)

[Spooks]

Great....it looks like no Tweedy and Titus is opening tonight?

Titus Andronicus ‏@titus_ndronicus
Tonight, every New Jersey indie rocker's dream comes true for @titus_ndronicus. #STAYTUNED

https://twitter.com/titus_ndronicus#

[bmack86]

I've gotta say, this is my favorite Spooks thread.

[Spooks]

Yo La Tengo at Maxwell’s
14 December 2012
Hanukkah, night 7

Titus Andronicus and Jon Benjamin & Jon Glaser (as Soundtracapella) opened.
benefit for the Waves For Water Sandy Relief Initiative
mix disc by Ira

whole set with Andrew Bird on violin

Everyday
One PM Again
How To Make A Baby Elephant Float
Last Days of Disco
Flying Lesson (Hot Chicken #1)
Little Eyes
I Fall In Love Too Easily (Jule Styne & Sammy Cohn) (Andrew Bird on vocals)
When It’s Dark
I’ll Keep It With Mine (Bob Dylan)
Stupid Things
More Stars Than There Are In Heaven
Heroin (Velvet Underground) (Roky Erickson arrangement)

*(encore)*
Griselda (Antonia)
Song For the North Star (Jorma Kaukonen) (with Devendra Banhart on vocals)
If I Only Had A Match (Lee Morris, Arthur Johnson, & George W. Meyer) (with DB)

[Spooks]

I guess Ira's mother joined them again this year!

Yo La Tengo at Maxwell’s
15 December 2012
Hanukkah, night 8

Norman Blake and Gaylord Fields opened
benefit for the Jersey Shore Relief
mix disc by Yoni Wolf

whole set (minus “Ohm”) with Norman Blake on guitar, organ, and vocals

Ohm
Did I Tell You
Cone of Silence
Goin’ Back (Carole King & Gerry Goffin)
Avalon or Someone Similar
Season of the Shark
Circling the Sun (Jonny)
Moby Octopad
I Feel Like Going Home
Walking On Ice (The Riot Squad)
I Wanna Be Your Lover (Bob Dylan) (with Don Fleming on guitar)
Evelyn Marble (Velvet Monkeys) (DF on guitar and vocals)
God Knows It’s True (Teenage Fanclub)
I Heard You Looking
Eight Days A Week (The Beatles)

*(encore)*
Antmusic (Adam & the Ants) (with Ira & James drum procession & audience drummers)
Rice Krispies Jingle/Brown Sugar (Rolling Stones) (with Gaylord Fields on vocals)
Little Red Book (Burt Bacharach & Hal David) (with GF)
My Little Corner of the World (Bob Hilliard & Lee Pockriss) (with Marilyn Kaplan on vocals)